How do you see yourself in the love of God?

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Do you believe in the Love God has for you?

That God loved you SO MUCH that...

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16, KJV)."

17 For God did not send the Son into the world to judge and condemn the world

[that is, to initiate the final judgment of the world],

but that the world might be saved through Him.

John 3:17 Amplified Bible (AMP)

Dear friend in Christ,

How do you see yourself in the love of God?

In all our ways, we can think & belieive we are right. I used to think I was a good enough Christian & alot of my ways were right, until God redirected my way of seeing things.

God loved me TOO much to let me stay the way I was; & still growing in the love of God, God loves me TOO much to let me stay the way I am; when there is something God wants to get my attention about!

YET, God loves me anyway, unconditional of me and who I am! BECAUSE Love is who God is, unconditionally of who I am! God is LOVE! The love God that has for us is the same every day: PURE! And, once we trust in the love God has for us, we can pray, Search me God and know my heart!

Do you know how much God loves you?

God's ways are...

Well God's word says it best in Isaiah 55:8 KJV "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD."

Through Christ, God's living word gives us a new perspective on life!

But I would love to ask you, How do you see yourself in the love of God?

How do you feel about the love God has for you?

How do you see yourself loved by God?

The world (who hasn't seen or known God's love); and some self-proclaimed opinions may shout at you lies, but do you know that God is love? Do you know HOW MUCH God has SO LOVED YOU?

How do you see yourself in the love of God?

Does your situation change the way you see the Love God has for you?

I see myself in the love of God as Training in, being corrected in, abiding in, growing in, forgiven in & confident in the love God has for me & I TRUST in the same love God has for you.

When you can't see through your circumstances; and it's hard to believe in the love God has for you by what you are going through, do you still know-how much God loves you? ...That He is right beside you still?

God is right beside you!!!

Do you know how much God loves you?

How do you see yourself in the love of God?

Search me [thoroughly], O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there is any wicked or hurtful way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.Psalm 139:23‭-‬24 AMPC

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Be the Passion of God's Love

Forever HE is glorified, by Karen Rowe Hope in Today Ministries, June 12, 2017

I praise God for this revelation that come to me just
moments after I shared a testimony on Facebook this morning!

I will keep this
message simple as the Holy Spirit has given it unto me to share with you today!

The more we let go of the emotions that hold
us down, the more we experience understanding coming to us from God and in
Jesus Name, I pray this is a blessing to you too!

The more we let go of
the emotions that hold us down, the more we experience understanding coming to
us from God …

Our Hedge of Protection is in the Word of God

Our Hedge of Protection is in the Word of God. Are you abiding in the Word of God? The Word
of God is LOVE. Are you abiding in
LOVE? Every challenge that comes to us
is for our benefit to grow in our understanding of the Love of Jesus and the
Life Jesus died to give us!

We know
that the Israelites traveled around a short trip [11 Days {Deuteronomy 1:2}]
for 40 years [Joshua 5:6]; how long will it take us to surrender from our old
ways of thinking to trust in God alone?

How do we love like Jesus?

When we have arrived through Jesus to a place of certainty
that Jesus is RISEN –We are spiritually made alive in Christ! And, then we begin to grow in our knowledge,
but understanding is by experiencing The Holy Spirit; and understanding is an
incredible strength to us, and with a purpose to grow up into becoming a direct
representation of Jesus!

Our Hedge of Protection is ABIDING [Remaining] in the Love of God!

Jesus was resurrected from the dead to be Alive for many to
see, talk with and experience the life God has promised us who will believe! Yet, for many of us, we have not been taught
why we go through difficulties!

When I
first read the book of Job several years ago, I wasn’t ready yet! I didn’t understand WHY God would allow such
things to happen to such a good, good man!

Years later, I gained understanding that God never stopped
loving Job, He just believed in His love for Him so greatly; and God knew Job
had some room to grow in His relationship with God!

If this doesn’t make sense to you just yet,
hold on to your faith a little while longer, because IF you don’t give up on
God, God has NOT given upon you!

OUR HEDGE OF
PROTECTION

IS FOUND

IN AN UNMOVED & STEADFAST

FAITHFUL HEART THAT IS FOCUSED ON THE
LOVE OF JESUS!

THE LIVING WORD OF GOD FLOWING THROUGH OUR HEART!

The Holy Spirit is our teacher and helper!

Painting a picture of what a hedge of protection looks like
~

LOVE IS GOD'S WAY OF STRENGTH AND COURAGE TO OVERCOME ALL THINGS FOR GOOD!

–IF we don't give up on
love (God’s Way of Strength and Courage).

How did GIVING UP to exhaustion; and GIVING IN to
complaining; and GIVING UP on being grateful to God, and FORGETTING GOD as
their SOURCE for LIFE work out for those written about in Joshua 5:6?

It was WHEN things got tuff, that
people gave up. YET, it is in those very
moments [we can learn from] that things EITHER get RUFF; or things reveal the work of God for our
GOOD! What the Lord is teaching me today
is: How we respond determines which side
of the Hedge of Protection we desire to be on MOST!

How we respond to difficulties

determines

which side of the Hedge of Protection we desire to be on MOST!

“The Israelites had moved about in
the wilderness forty years until all the men who were of military age when they
left Egypt had died, since they had not obeyed the LORD. For the LORD had sworn
to them that they would not see the land he had solemnly promised their
ancestors to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey (Joshua 5:6 NIV).”

How did (for them) / does (for us) complaining work out for God’s people? There is a message of HOPE here! There is a passage through that mountain! The GATE is JESUS and the POWER IS abiding in the LOVE of God trusting God and following JESUS!

In the
BOOK of History (Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth), God’s People who were finally being delivered [BY THE POWER OF
GOD] from a life of slavery [Being
led by a pillar from God of fire and light / Day and Night (The Holy Spirit of
God)] to a promised land of Milk and Honey; many chose death instead of
Faithfully trusting God for FREEDOM!

Thank you Jesus !

We CAN

CHOOSE LIFE & BLESSINGS!

HERE IT IS!

...even though we may have to suffer for a little while, SO that the GOD of all COMFORT and the Father of all Mercies, even the God and Father of the LORD Jesus Christ, can comfort us,

SO THAT we can be a comfort to anyone that is in any trouble!

Gang / Friends, It is just a LITTLE WHILE LONGER! And, there is a SO THAT right there in FRONT
of us! If we are friends of Jesus, we’ll
hold on to our faith in Jesus and trust in the love God has for us for as long
as God calls this day “TODAY”. I promise
you God will NOT allow more to come on you than HE knows you can handle, and
overcome for the good of your very life with HIM.

Being perfected in Christ is
not fun, BUT in the end, there is SUCH of freedom in the existence of LIFE and in the very air
that we breathe!

Overcoming temptations is life experienced, as Heaven COME to
earth!

Please hear the Lord speak to you in this message.

The Lord is good and God is love and without
love we are not in the hedge of protection, which is the Word of God!

Satan can’t get to us, UNLESS we open our heart up to him …

This is that struggle of flesh and spirit, but my friend, BUT, Greater is HE (GOOD) who lives in you THAN he that is in the world (evil).

God has given this message to us a bit clearer too in His
Word to us and found in John 1:1!

In the
beginning was the Word and the Word was God and the Word was with God (emphasis mine)! This is LOVE! This is JESUS! This is GOD! This
is the Holy Spirit of God!

Now, we determine who we desire to be like …

Fighting upstream a River flowing in God's Grace?

Or flowing in the River of God's Grace?

We don’t like (to be LIKE) we don’t like to be, but our flesh will fight with God’s will living
in us, {unless we surrender to GRACE} because we just want our way sometimes, especially when things are so wrong. BUT, God uses these very things to work
together for the good to them that love God; according to the purpose we are
called in; and that purpose is to be transformed into the image of God’s
Son (Romans 8:28-29 emphasis mine)!

Glory be to God! I
pray this message is a courage to your heart to love Jesus MORE; than Satan
hates good.

Love Jesus MORE; than Satan hates good.

The Lord just revealed to me that every test that comes our
way, is due to the elevation of our hearts ability to love like God! We are on a highway to Heaven, and trials are
steps we take in our heart as we grow closer and closer in our relationship with
God!

Glory be the God for showing this to me! If our heart is perfectly clean to love like
God, BY THE HOLY SPIRIT’S HELP, the devil has no pitchfork to use against our
mind, will, or emotions! –So, as there was no stone to throw in that day Jesus
drew in the sand as HE rose to respond in the power of the Holy Spirit remaining on Jesus;
there are no evil thoughts in the purified heart abiding in the love of God; and
there is no place for the devil to poke us with success!

Once we overcome a trial / test of our heart to grow in our
understanding by EXPERIENCE of WHY God allowed us to be educated, we will never
be the same; and our heart won’t be quick to make a mistake!

Truly it is like career college classes in Higher Education!

Truly it is like career college classes in Higher
Education! We must repeat a class if
failed over and over again, until we are able to be successful in our knowledge
and demonstrate on a test that we are ready to move forward and be promote to
the next higher level!

This is how we are growing in the Lord! Step by Step, we are stepping on evil’s head,
by growing in our comprehension of understanding this love God has for us is
GOOD; and the power of Love, by abiding in God and God in us (1 John 4:16
emphasis mine) ~ This is our Hedge of Protection!

THIS IS

(GOD IS)

(THE LOVE of JESUS IS)

(THE PRECIOUS WORD OF GOD IS)

(THE HOLY SPIRIT IS)

The Word of God is our Hedge of Protection!

Don’t pray for situations to go away SO THAT your joy will
come back (and make that mistake I prayed years ago);

God spoke to me and said with a
firm voice of correction:

“I WILL
NOT! YOU WILL REMAIN JOYFUL ALWAYS!”

I found my new content heart real fast! And, guess what, with my repentance, the
devil did flee and the situation did change! BUT my joy was 1st found in the grace of the LORD willing to
endure any situation for the glory of God!

Think about this. I
am not making this up.

God is God and HE
will speak to you!

Glory be to God!

At
least we know!

I have come to know and recognize
tests as they come as a footstool of elevation –that when I finally give it all
up to God, the devil will flee and I do experience the freedoms in Christ as my
heart lets go of the way I used to feel and think; and take on a NEW WAY of
feeling, thinking and responding.

Together, as we believe, we can say,

I am not perfect in my
human nature yet, but God sure is in the Holy Spirit whom abides in me and walks beside me, because
I believe in Jesus; STRIVE to & SEEK to abide in the love of Jesus; and asked the Holy Spirit to abide in me!

God is love!

My human nature may still make mistakes, but I am enabled & I am growing
in God’s grace –and, greater still, I am still growing in the Spirit of the
Lord as God sees my heart needs to grow in LOVE, which is this transformation
into God’s Character the Bible teaches us about.

We have a choice NOT to LET the enemy of God get access to our heart!

The devil will come AT us in every way possible, but he only
has a few access points! We have a choice NOT to LET the enemy of God get access to our heart! Guard your mind
and heart in Christ!

Be quick to
surrender to God all your selfish ambition and envies (resentments)!

Do on deny the truth; and don’t boast in it
either! HOWEVER, do ask the Holy Spirit
to help you transform your complaint into a prayer and bring praise, honor and
glory to God. In Jesus Name, Amen.

In closing,

PRAY, read the Word of God and listen for the
Voice of the Lord speak to you! Know the
Voice of the ONE who leads you; and identify the characteristics and character
of God!

Don’t forget that bitterness leads to deception and
depression, but love leads to God and HOPE in God is the position of our heart where freedoms in Christ are found; and the
ability to love like God is discovered!

LOVE LIKE GOD IS A MIRACLE!

Final note, what is deception? But the busying up in our mind focused on the
wrong way of thinking, as the deceiver works evil toward us on the side, while
we are looking over there in the wrong hearts direction.

Jesus is the Truth, the Way and the LIFE! No one comes to the Father, but through
Christ Jesus.

This is good news to all who love the Lord Jesus!

Satan can’t penetrate the Hedge of Protection, which is the
Love of God!

Are you abiding in the love
God has for you? You can, but we all
need Jesus and we all need the helper Jesus prayed for us to have! We all need the Holy Spirit; and we all need
to trust and obey!

Satan has no ability to remain tormenting our soul, when we
come at him with GOD

(and remember God is LOVE ... it matters that we forgive others and pray) in the POWER of God’s Word, in the Blood / Name of Jesus, and in the
Holy Spirit of God; in the Hedge of Protection / our heart surrendered to God's goodness and WORD!

If we are not following / abiding in God’s Love; then, look
again, because the deceiver will work some magic to trick (anyone who will NOT seek God's will) into following him. WOW! And, this is when and where and how we COULD step outside
the Hedge of Protection:

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